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Reducere. This is an indispensable reference source and training tool not only for kiln operators, but for supervisors and management staff as well. Extensiv...

Reducere. Si desea descubrir la influyente y fascinante historia de California siga leyendo... La transformación de California en el estado más poblado de Es...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context, exploring its implication...

Reducere. A longtime resident of Rancho Santa Fe, California, Roger Kyle Lindland brings the character, color and beauty of this Southern California enclave ...

Takes the reader on a journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, 'What does it mean to show?' this title explores the agen...

Published posthumously in the early 1920's, Max Weber's Economy and Society has since become recognized as one of the greatest sociological treatis...

Shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the sto...

This Element denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and even the discipline...

An annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 CE) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by...

This book explores the campaign history of California's women legislators and the increasingly complex strategies they used in efforts to transcend...

Reducere. "Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful. . . . suspenseful and surpris...

Tracing constructivist work on culture, identity and norms within the historical, geographical and professional contexts of world politics, this bo...

Reducere. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California...

Reducere. DescriptionNow published by Oxford University Press--at a new, lower price--Men's Lives reflects on the question "What does it mean to be a man in ...

This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120, 000 Japanese Americans during World Wa...

Examining the relationship between the Iraqi state under the Ba'th regime and the Assyrians, a Christian ethno-religious group, Benjamen looks at t...

Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam S...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

Reducere. DescriptionA story of ghetto youth growing up in the city of Compton, California, a place where the navigation of daily life is literally, a tightr...

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks,...

Reducere. Ocean Beach, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, is known throughout the city, county, and beyond as a unique and quirky place with the feel o...

Reducere. "Sherri Gerbert Fuller provides us with a rare look at Chinese immigrant lives and aspirations in Minnesota, proudly reclaiming their voices as par...

Reducere. DescriptionPracticing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, p...

Reducere. A white psychiatrist shares the truths she has learned about historical trauma in this book which has been called 'prophetic' by Reverend Mathew Fo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gerald R. ClarkMany historical and scriptural findings not included in the Canonical Bible, have now come to light. Access ...

DescriptionExperiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad to...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Isa BlumiSince March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces--supported by Britain and the United States--has w...

For nearly a century, the worldwide anthroposophical movement has been a catalyst for environmental activism, helping to bring to life many modern ...

Reducere. The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under uniq...

Reducere. The Storyteller's Goddess is a collection of more than 30 stories from 20 cultures that celebrate the goddess. They are organized around seven heal...

Reducere. As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a ...

Reducere. According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was ...

The complete guide to debunking right-wing misinterpretations of the Bible--from economics and immigration to gender and sexuality.Jesus loves bord...

Reducere. An abiding classic, Ramona depicts the life and trials of a half-Scottish, half-Native American orphan, who experiences discrimination on the basis...

DescriptionHow long is the shadow of genocide? How does it affect the offspring of the survivors? And how do survivors and their families retain a ...

Reducere. Predominantly built as a "bedroom" community for the San Francisco Bay Area, Pacifica's rich and diverse heritage stretches back to the Spanish exp...

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical pers...

What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative stud...

Reducere. An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/...

The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and...

DescriptionBeing concerned with representation, this book is about an idea, a concept, a word. It is primarily a conceptual analysis, not a histori...

DescriptionHealth care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a sca...

Reducere. An Irish mother faces her destiny in California as the acclaimed trilogy comes to an end--"a vibrant picture of American history in the mid-19th ce...

Reducere. Popular culture is rife with movies, books, and television shows that address our collective curiosity about what the world was like long ago. From...

This book places the presidency of Donald Trump as well as the brewing Sino-American Cold War within the broader historical context of American heg...

The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a deeply fulfilling story, now av...

In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit h...